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A remarkable building
Bellaire Manor is one of the first houses in the park, built between 1735 and 1750. Originally overlooking a 142-acre working farm, the house now sits on the FDR golf course - talk about being close to the links! Its original owner, Samuel Preston, served as the administrator of the William Penn estate and was the Provincial Treasurer. If you are a true architectural historian, you want to make a trek to Roosevelt Park to see this remarkable building with surviving floor to ceiling wood paneling on the inside.